Gwen Ball graduated from Mills College in Oakland, California with an MFA in writing.
Her teaching experience includes courses ranging from basic writing to graduate research-writing
and design.
Ball began teaching English at GGU in 1991, and in 1998 she became one of the first
online instructors. Ball created the OWL, which opened at GGU in Fall 1998, and has
been its sole manager since its inception. She also manages the Writing Lab on our
main campus.
Gwen has three children, two cats, and a dog, and lives with her husband and the rest
of their clan in Alameda. When she's not teaching or overseeing the OWL and Writing
Lab, she's ferrying her children to activities; swimming; walking her dog, Sadie,
along the bay trails of Alameda; or reading Anthony Trollope novels, Henning Mankell
and other Swedish or British mysteries.